India has introduced the primary low-cost tablet

Posted by admin on November 10, 2011

SOUTH Africa is to receive its first homegrown media tablet device next month when Wise Tablets introduces its economical product against stiff competition from established international companies equivalent to Apple and Samsung whose tablets are gaining momentum locally.

The higher end Wise Touch tablet enters the market at lower than R3 500 while the least expensive model of the device will retail from below R1 500 and is accessible with 7-inch or 9-inch screens.

The range is operated on Google’s Android platform – the well-liked operating system for smartphones and tablet computers worldwide because it is out there under the lenient, free and open source software licences.

Internationally, India has introduced the 1st low-cost tablet, Aakash, for $50. The device is made by Datawind, a Canadian company.

Wise Tablets, based in Centurion, conceptualised its product in South Africa however the device is manufactured within the Far East where Apple’s iPad – which started the tablet revolution – also is produced for cost effectiveness.

On Friday, the founding father of Wise Tablets who declined to have his name published but is a veteran inside the local technology sector, said Wise Tablets was targeted on the average South African consumer.

“Our customers won’t even know what a gigabyte is,” he said.

He said the corporate was in talks with South African retailers to present the device.

A differentiator to international tablets is the local content in additional than 100 applications so that you can be available at the device.

According to a press release published by Wise Tablets, the vast majority of the content was developed on behalf of South African retailers and preloaded directly to the tablet within the kind of WISE Shopping center, WISE Business Park and WISE Education Centre.

The shopping center segment contains applications that come with local retailers, banks, travel shops and entertainment that permit ordering of take- aways, online shopping from supermarkets, and access to magazines and newspapers.

Gian Shipton, managing director of Wise Tablets, said in an announcement: “The Wise Shopping center was developed especially for the Wise Touch to provide the user an effortless, unique, interactive shopping experience as a replacement to the e-commerce options available today.”

Certain applications can even provide access to educational content and should include a public school syllabus, in step with the corporate.

Gartner, a world technology research firm predicted in September that media tablet sales will continue to experience strong growth through to 2015 when sales are forecast to achieve 326.3 million units.

Gijima, a South African technology integrator announced this week it was appointed the primary agent approved to integrate, sell and maintain the iPad for corporate clients.

iPad currently leads the market and is followed closely by Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, Motorola’s Xoom and Note devices.

Gartner predicts that iPad sales would account for 73.4 percent of global media tablet sales, dipping from 83 percent last year.

Carolina Milanesi, research vice-president at Garnter said Apple would lead the market commanding greater than 50 percent until 2014. “This is because Apple delivers a great and unified user experience across its hardware, software and services. Unless competitors can respond with an identical approach, challenges to Apple’s position would be minimal.”

Research in Motion launched its Blackberry Playbook tablet in April within the US and Canada before its worldwide release.

A criticism of the Playbook, that is also counted a number of the top tablet devices, is that it is dependent upon pairing with a Blackberry cellphone to operate.

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